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diff --git a/bsd/man/man2/reboot.2 b/bsd/man/man2/reboot.2
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@@ -46,11 +46,15 @@
 .Ft int
 .Fn reboot "int howto"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Fn Reboot
-reboots the system.
-Only the super-user may reboot a machine on demand.
-However, a reboot is invoked
-automatically in the event of unrecoverable system failures.
+.Fn reboot
+reboots the system.  Only the super-user may reboot a machine on demand.
+However, a reboot may be invoked automatically in the event of
+unrecoverable system failures.  Programs other than
+.Xr reboot 8
+should not call
+.Fn reboot .
+.Xr Shutdown 8
+or a higher-level API will shut the system down cleanly.
 .Pp
 .Fa Howto
 is a mask of options; the system call interface allows the following
@@ -86,9 +90,9 @@ the processor is simply halted; no reboot takes place.
 This option should be used with caution.
 .It Dv RB_INITNAME
 An option allowing the specification of an init program (see
-.Xr init 8 )
+.Xr launchd 8 )
 other than
-.Pa /sbin/init
+.Pa /sbin/launchd 
 to be run when the system reboots.
 This switch is not currently available.
 .It Dv RB_KDB
@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@ prevents this, booting the system with a single-user shell
 on the console.
 .Dv RB_SINGLE
 is actually interpreted by the
-.Xr init 8
+.Xr launchd 8
 program in the newly booted system.
 .Pp
 When no options are given (i.e.,
@@ -143,12 +147,10 @@ variable
 The caller is not the super-user.
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr kadb 4 ,
-.Xr crash 8 ,
+.Xr shutdown 8 ,
 .Xr halt 8 ,
-.Xr init 8 ,
-.Xr reboot 8 ,
-.Xr savecore 8
+.Xr launchd 8 ,
+.Xr reboot 8
 .Sh BUGS
 The HP300 implementation supports neither
 .Dv RB_DFLTROOT